Palmyra Rat Eradication Rids the Atoll of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes
New research reveals the removal of rodents from Palmyra by Island Conservation, The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011 also got rid of the disease-carrying Asian tiger mosquito. By: Jan TenBruggencate Sometimes — too rarely — happy things happen by accident. On the remote island of Palmyra, directly south of […]